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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-08-10 11:37 PM
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What's your current system?


Mine.
Not "cutting edge" by any means.
I have OC'ed it but have returned to stock CPU speed as that suits me fine and no heat worries.
The videocard is OC'ed a little bit. It handles most games and processing just fine for me now.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield @ 2.4Ghz
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L
Zalman 9700 CPU cooler
4 GB G.SKILL PC2 6400
Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA
2 x Seagate Barracuda 80GB SATA
XFX HD-4870A-ZHDC XXX 1G
16x Plextor DVD Burner
COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 case
Antec True Power Trio TP3-550w PSU
Windows XP Pro

I built this in 2008 with a recent videocard upgrade.
I like building a new system every 3 years or so with room to upgrade my videocard in the meantime as prices drop.

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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-08-10 11:54 PM
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1. Which one?
Edited on Mon Feb-08-10 11:56 PM by hobbit709
I got 8 plus a laptop.
Ranging from 2.6GHZ dual core to 3.0GHz(3 dual, 1 tri) 4Gb PC6400 RAM each, Dual DVD-RW, 500Gb to 1.5Tb drives, NVidia 8200 or 8400 video. With assorted card readers and external drives.
Using Windows XP Pro(2 systems), XP Pro X64(2 systems), Windows 7 Ultimate, Ubuntu 9.10(2 systems), Ubuntu Studio 9.10 and Mandriva 2009.
Printing with 2 laser printers, one color laser, one thermal diffusion photo, one regular inkjet and just got a large format printer but haven't set it up yet.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 02:28 AM
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2. About a year old now
Intel Core2 Quad Processor @ 2.33GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT120 with 1GB DDR2
8GB 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Memory
7200RPM SATA II (400GB, 640GB & 1TB)
Samsung 23" LCD (1920x1080)
Debian GNU/Linux Ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit)
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 03:37 PM
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3. Since uninstalling Norton fried my XP machine
I'm on an HP laptop, 6 GB RAM, 2 1.6 Gig processors. This thing has more guts than I've ever been able to afford on any machine until now and it's so fast it seems to be anticipating my every move. As long as it hangs together, I won't need a replacement desktop.

Since my house has been robbed so many times, it's also coming with me when I leave the house, even though it's LoJacked.

Now if I could only get my favorite XP programs to run on Win7, I'd be a happy camper. I did manage to transfer everything I could before Norton fried the XP box. The good news is that the basic drivers for printers and other peripherals work well enough for me to do my taxes when the 1099s come in.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 11:10 PM
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4. My little setup
Asus P7P55 WS Motherboard
Intel i7 870 CPU
Corsair 16 gig memory
Asus Xoner sound card
2 western Digital 1 terrabyte H.D.
Windows 7 Ultimate
Kingwin Mach one mod. 1000 watt power supply

Old piece of shit case..Really! (I ran out of money) :)
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 10:15 AM
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6. wow...

...how much that set you back?
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 06:26 PM
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9. I Think it was somewhere around 1500 with dvd drives and such..but ..
..at least, I won't be buying or "Upgrading" for awhile. :)
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Betty88 Donating Member (437 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 06:26 AM
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5. built this about 18 months ago
Q6600 @ 2.40 ghz
EVGA 122-YW-E173
2x 500 gig hard drives
6 gig of ram
8800GT 512, will be upgrading this in the spring, its been a nice card it was the last upgrade of my old computer.

It has an after market fan on the cpu but I dont remember the model its a Zalman tho.
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 10:28 AM
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7. I had an EVGA 8800GT
Great card.
I upgraded to the XFX 4870 and love it more.
http://www.xfxforce.com/en-us/products/graphiccards/HD%204000series/4870.aspx

My monitor has a 1680x1050 max resolution or I would have opted for the 4890.


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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 12:29 PM
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8. Asus P5KPL-CM mobo, Pentium E5200 dual core @2.5 Ghz..
Edited on Wed Feb-10-10 12:31 PM by Fumesucker
4GB PC2 6400 DDR2 RAM

NVIDIA GEFORCE 9600gso w/384MB DDR3 ram..

2X Seagate Barracuda 200GB 8MB SATA HD

1X Seagate Barracuda 250GB PATA HD

LG Lightscibe DVD 16X DVD burner.

21" Radius Multivision CRT

Altec Lansing Sub/Satellite system with Dolby Pro Logic (old but better sounding than a lot of newer systems to my ears)

Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro Joystick

WinXP pro/Knoppix Linux dual boot.

It runs pretty well for what I do, the only thing I do that really stresses it is Flightsim X with the accelerator pack and after considerable tweaking I can get about 40 FPS at 1280x1024 res..

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